Video takes 20 HOURS to export?!

Video takes 20 HOURS to export?!
by Sam East on Jun 5, 2015 at 2:28:39 pm

I've been using Premier Pro a while and I've had some problems here and there when it comes to exporting my videos with it or Media Encoder, but I can't remember the last time it took me 20 hours to export a video that's under 20 minutes long.

I haven't changed my export settings from when they used to be reasonable export lengths. The only thing different that happened was I had to use Handbrake to turn my video from variable to constant framerate and I had to argue with it to turn from a m4v file to an mp4. The file says it's an mp4 now but it still acts like an m4v file. Does that have anything to do with it?

For anyone else with a similar problem, all I did was uncheck "Export with maximum render settings". I was told once it wasn't necessary, and though I don't remember saving it with my exporting preset, it seems to have done the trick.